Google says outage is over

Users in some parts of the United States could not access Google on Wednesday morning.

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Google's Web services were down for some users Wednesday morning

Reports of outages began about 9:30 a.m. ET and lasted about an hour

Google said the issues affected users in four U.S. states but have been fixed

Twitter jokester: "Looks like the Mayans were only off by 6ish months... "

Google and related services were inaccessible to some users Wednesday morning, prompting confusion and consternation across the Web.

Reports of outages began by 9:30 a.m. ET and quickly spread on Twitter, with users asking if the problem was affecting others as well. By 10:35 a.m. ET, some users were reporting that Google was back up.

In an e-mail to CNN, Google said it received reports of problems with Google services from users in West Virginia, North Carolina, Nebraska and Georgia.

"However, the issue was quickly resolved and is now over. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused our users there," Google said in a statement.

Among the services affected were Gmail, Google Plus, Google Drive and YouTube. Google's App Status Dashboard said the issues were fixed by 10:40 a.m. ET, but not before jokesters weighed in on Twitter.